$2 from every ticket sold on the US tour will go into Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy Foundation.
This money will be granted out to several very cool organizations selected by each of the band members:

Mike
www.advocacyforpatients.org
www.lybba.org

Matt
www.home-step.org

Ed
www.wm3.org

Stone
Partners in Health (www.pih.org)

Jeff
www.thepoverellocenter.org
www.826seattle.org

Matt Damon, H2O Africa co-founder, and Gary White, WaterPartners executive director and co-founder, have joined forces to co-found a new organization – Water.org – a non-profit focused on bringing access to safe water and sanitation to the developing world. Water.org will leverage grassroots awareness-building expertise and nearly two decades of demonstrated innovation and success in the sector to help the nearly 890 million people without safe water and the more than 2.5 billion people without safe sanitation.

Our friends over at HeadCount aren’t done taking care of business now that the election is over.

As co-founder Andy Bernstein reminds us, “It's not just about voting for candidates we each believe in. It's about what the candidates do once we put them in office. As a community, we have a unique opportunity to influence this. The people in power recognize that musicians and their fans helped get them elected...we can now help dictate the political agenda - if we stay organized.”

If there was any question about young people’s power to change the world, the 2008 presidential election answered it. Beyond the fact that 66% of young voters (18-29) voted for Obama, the real impact was on the primaries. Obama consistently outpaced Hillary Clinton among the younger age groups. When you consider the razor-thin margin by which he won, you can state with certainty that if it wasn’t for young voters, there would have been a Clinton vs. McCain general election. “Yes We Can” is only true because so many young voters can say “Yes We Did.”